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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805413

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Assembly

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Frank Bruno

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Introduction to Verilog RTL Design, Simulation, and Implementation

4. Chapter 2: Combinational Logic

5. Chapter 3: Counting Button Presses

6. Chapter 4: Let's Build a Calculator

7. Chapter 5: FPGA Resources and How to Use Them

8. Chapter 6: Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design

9. Section 3: Interfacing with External Components

10. Chapter 7: Introduction to AXI

11. Chapter 8: Lots of Data? MIG and DDR2

12. Chapter 9: A Better Way to Display – VGA

13. Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Topics

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Chapter 8: Lots of Data? MIG and DDR2

We've been working our way up toward a more functional design that can gather information, do some useful work, and present it in a meaningful manner. In previous chapters, we captured audio data and temperature data. We also looked at wrapping some of the interfaces so that we could use the IP integrator . The IP integrator also allowed for easily instancing floating-point operations. This has given us some functional designs, but we've been limited to using LEDs and then seven-segment displays, making it difficult to visualize information such as the PDM waveform data or even the temperature.

We have another option when it comes to displaying using our boards: the VGA connector. To effectively use it, we will need access to quite a bit of memory. To display 640x480 8-bit color, we would need 300 kilobytes, almost 1 megabyte for true color. We can certainly play some games to stretch out our memory, but alternatively, we can use the...